Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1887-01-25

or unjust discrimination in relation
thereto, be deemed and taken in all
courts of this state as Sufficient evidence
that the rates therein fixed are Just and
reasonable rates Of charges for the
transportation OF passengers and freights
and cars upon the railroads.; and said
commissioners shall from time to time,
and as often as circumstances may re-
quire, change and revise said schedules.
When any schedule shall have been made
or revised, as aforesaid, it shall be the
duty of said commissioners to cause pub
LEGATION thereof to be made for four sue
cessive weeks in some public newspapers
published in the cities of Dallss, Austin,
Galveston, Fort Worth, San Antonio and
Houston, IN this state, and after the same
shall be so published it shall be the duty
Of all such railroad companies 10 post at
oil their respective stations, in cOnspic-
uOuY place, i cooy OF said schedule for
the protection of the people; provided,
that the schedules thus prepared
snail not be taken as evidence as
herein provided until schedules
shall have been prepared and published
as aforesaid, for all the railroad COM
panies now organized and under The laws
Of the state, or that may be organized at
the time o. said publ cation. All such
schedules puTport'ng to be printet and
published as aforesaid shall be received
and held in all such suits as prima faCie
the schedules Of said commissioners
without further proof than the produc-
ton of the schedules desired to be used as
evidence, with 4 certificate of the railroad
commission that the same is true copy
of the schedule prepared for them for the
railroad company or corporation therein
named, and that the same has been duly
published as required by law, stating the
name of the papers In which the same was
published, together with the date and
place of publication.
Sec. :. That it shall ne the duty of said
commissioners to investigate the books
and papers of all the railroad companies
doing business in this state to ascertain
if the rules and regulations Aforesaid have
been complied with, and to make personal
vIsitatiOns of railroad offices, stations aud
other places of business for the Durpcs
of examination and to make rules and
regulations concerning such eXamiEa- !
tions, which rules and regulations shall |
be observed snd Cbeyed as other rules |
and regulations aforesaid; said |
shall also have
full power and author
ity to examine al agents and employees
of said railroad companies, and other per-
sons, under oath or otherwise, in order
to procure the necessary Information to
make Just and reasonable rates of freight
and passenger tariffs, and to ascertain if
such rules and regulations are observed
or violated, and to make necessary and
proper rules and regulations concerning
such examinations, and which rules and
regulations herein provided for shall be
0beyed and enforced as sill other rules
and regulations provided for in this act.
Sec. 5. That contracts and agreements
between railroad companies doing bust
ness n this state, as to the rates OF
freight and passenger tariffs, shall be
to said commissioners for in
'pection and correction, that it may be
seen whether or not they are violation
If law or Of this act, or of the rules and
equations of said commissioners; and {
III arrangements and agreements what |
.ver as the Lewiston of earnings of any I
lind by competing railroad companies do !
ng business in this state shall be sub
n!t!ed to said commissioners for